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| Fortress of Solitude: Bakery is located in pink, the coolers are a lighter shade |
The Bakery Department is yet another
one of our saving graces. There are not a lot of places that would be fully
equipped with industrial-sized ovens, fryers, mixers, and a prep area. It is
all made of stainless steel and Formica counter tops. It is from this
department that we can make food in large enough quantities to feed all of our
thirty-two survivors. If there are three servings in a regular 16 oz. can of
green beans, we have to cook 10 cans to feed us for one meal. Stop and think
about trying to cook 10 cans of green beans. You cannot microwave that if you
want the food to all be hot at the same time. You need a heck of a sized pot to
cook all of that food.
The mixers that we have are huge.
There is a bread oven that is so big, you can literally walk inside it. We have
fryers that would cook pounds worth of chicken in a shot for the hot bar. There
is a rotisserie cooker. We are really living large when it comes to our cooking
area. The only thing we are lacking is a true stovetop to cook things on but we
have worked our way around that too.
We knew that the bread on the shelves
was going to go bad because there was no way we could eat all of it before it
molded. We literally had hundreds of loaves of bread. There was no way we were
eating it all in time. But 5A has a large amount of flour and yeast. Combining
that with the mixers, ovens, and professional baker in Sharon, we are able to
make our own bread. It doesn't seem like a big deal now but in March, it is
going to be a great luxury...
And I also like how the kitchen is big
enough to incorporate a lot of people. If you haven’t figured this out yet, I
think one of the reasons that we have survived as long as we have is because we
work together as a team. Many hands make light work. So it is not just two
people making dinner for everyone else. If they did that, by the time they got
done cleaning up the dishes from breakfast, it would be time to start preparing
lunch. They wouldn’t get anything else done. So we work together as a large
group to make everything flow as easy as possible.
Now, I don’t want you to think that
I am rubbing it in your face here. “Hey, look at how good we are eating!” We
are surviving because of things like the Bakery and the Meat Department. I
guess it is not surprising. Going all the way back to the beginning of time,
the easier it was for people to eat, the more advanced their culture becomes.
If they don’t have to spend all their time looking for food, they have more
time to do things like art and music.
I think that with our food situation
well in hand it will allow us to do things like outside sorties, sniper
shooting zoms and writing online blogs that could educate people to a point
that we might save their lives.
